"Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment." Baltasar Gracian

I do not forgive people because I am weak. I forgive people because I am strong enough to know people make mistakes.

"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well." - Diane Ackerman

"To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing."-Unknown

"Loneliness teaches you everything except how to forget the person who made you alone."-unknown

Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be. - Karen Ravn

Properly told, for the right reasons and in the right way, the truth is a salve that starts healing and changes destructive patterns." -- Bruce Clarke